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Lay brother

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  1. 1
    A layman who is a member of a religious congregation or monastic order without the intention to become a priest.

    "In feudal days lay brothers were usually uneducated commoners, who did most menial, manual labor while the learned priestly monks held the more spiritual jobs."

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